Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-01
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
TIE LAND OF LITTLE PEOPLE.

I'M LAND u LITTLE PEOPLE.
Far away, and yet so near us, lies land where
all have been,
Played besides its sparkling waters, danced
along Is meadows green.
Where the busy world we dwell in and its noises
Like the echo OF tempest or the shadow of a
dream,
And it grows not old forever sweet and young.
lis the land Of little people, where the happy
children play.
And the things they know and see there are so
wonderful and grand,
Things that wiser folks and older cannot know
or understand
In the woods they meet the fairies. find the
giants in their caves.
See the palaces of cloudland, and the murmur
in the waves;
Know what all the brides sing of hear the
secrets of the Aow'rs
For the land OF little people is another world
than ours.
Once twas ours It's ours no longer. for. when
nursery time is DER,
Through the land OF little people we NAV
wander never more.
But we hear their merry voices and we see them
at their play,
And our own dark world grows brighter. and we
seem as young as they.
Roaming over shore and meadow talking To
the birds and flowrs,
For the land of little people is fairer world
than ours.
-AucIaand Ne,cs
The game OF questions Players in a cir
Gle, each with paper and pencil One asks
at least ten questions. Players write an
swers. The one who asks the questions
collects papers and read answers aloud.
Players try to guess name of writer
Draw long line on the ground. Put
l0blocks 20 feet from line each side. Two
choose sides, each trying to get the others
blocks. When one ventures across. his
opponents rush at him. If caught. he is a
prisoner, and he must stand on their blocks
tlll one OF his own party can touch him,
when he is free and can play again. If
one gets block, his opponent cannot catch
hlm till he puts that down and tries to get
another, and SO on till the blocks are gone
or the boys are all out. Then the other side
is victorious.
Two little girls of Concord. Mass, had
Just become possessors of autograph albums
and were very anxious to have Mr.. EN-
erson's name inscribed upon their pages
Finally, the little girls, who were about 10
years old started one day for Mr.. Emer-
sons house. As they approached and
while yet at some distance from it, they
saw Mr.. Emerson come out of the gate and
turn his steps towards them on his way to
the village. This somewhat embarrassed
them, and before they had recovered. he
approached near enough to speak to them,
which he did in his kindly fashion. They
modestly made known their wishes, where
upon he said; "Why, it will give me
great pleasure. 1t is very kind of YOU to
think of letting me do it." and immedi-
ately he turned about, took them home
with him, wrote his name in the albums
and in few moments sent them away with
the feeling that they had conferred a favor
upon him.
The giraffe belongs to the same tvpe.
class and order as the camel, and has many
points similar. 1t is not so clumsy and
coarse, neither is it so useful. The camel
is useful in life as burden-bearer. Its
long hair is valuable; its milk is nutritious
and its manure makes fine fuel. After
death its hide, flesh, bones, and in fact
nearly every part of it is useful. The
giraffe Is only an ornament to the park or
forest. With its slender tongue il twists
off punches Of leaves from the trees, twirls
and rolls them very smoothly, and then
chews them. Their weapon of defense is
their heels, with which they can kick
swiftly and powerfully. Their eyes are
beautiful in color, size and expression.
Their flesh is not eatable; their milk is
not good TO drink, and the hide is only
ornamental. Girafies are faithful friends
to each other, and are thought to live in
tamllie. i'll their native wilds.